Scottish Executive

Economy

Mr Jim Mather (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how it is engaging with banks and other major business organisations on the issue of economic growth.

Mr Jim Wallace: The Scottish Executive maintains contacts with the major organisations representing business and finance and engages with these as appropriate on a range of issues relating to the Scottish economy.

Economy

Mr Jim Mather (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has responded to the call from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry for an independent commission to review and report on the potential impact of financial independence for Scotland.

Mr Andy Kerr: The Executive sees no need to commission an independent study of the potential impacts of financial independence. Considerable work in this area has been undertaken over recent years by experts, notably in the academic world, and this has significantly informed this important debate.

  The Executive has participated actively in this debate.

Enterprise

Mr Jim Mather (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many permanent employees were employed by (a) Scottish Enterprise, (b) Highlands and Islands Enterprise and (c) each local enterprise company and, in each case, what the total annual remuneration of such employees was on 30 April 2003.

Mr Jim Mather (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many temporary employees were employed by (a) Scottish Enterprise, (b) Highlands and Islands Enterprise and (c) each local enterprise company and, in each case, what the total annual remuneration of such employees was on 30 April 2003.

Mr Jim Wallace: This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

Enterprise

Mr Jim Mather (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the existing performance and results standards set for its Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department in relation to enterprise.

Mr Jim Wallace: The Executive’s targets in relation to enterprise are set out in Building a Better Scotland (BABS), which was published in September 2002. As is noted in BABS, several of these targets are taken from A Smart, Successful Scotland . Performance measures relating to those targets are published annually in Measuring Scotland’s Progress Towards a Smart, Successful Scotland . The latest version of this document was published on the Executive’s website in March 2003.

  The Scottish budget documents (Annual Expenditure Report, Draft Budget and Budget) also include information about progress against a large number of objectives and targets which relate to enterprise.

Enterprise

Mr Jim Mather (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, inward investment jobs from companies whose headquarters are located outwith Scotland have been located in the Highlands and Islands in each year since 1990.

Mr Jim Wallace: Figures from Highlands and Islands Enterprise for inward investment jobs secured since 1991, the first year for which figures are available, are given in the following table:

  


Year 
  

Jobs secured 
  



1991 
  

29 
  



1992 
  

38 
  



1993 
  

141 
  



1994 
  

122 
  



1995 
  

528 
  



1996 
  

91 
  



1997 
  

590 
  



1998 
  

836 
  



1999 
  

1,070 
  



2000 
  

592 
  



2001 
  

23 
  



2002 
  

371 
  



Total 
  

4,431 
  



  Regional figures are compiled on a different basis from the statistics about inward investment projects in which the national agency Scottish Development International and its predecessor Locate in Scotland had a significant involvement. Therefore, a direct comparison with national figures is not possible.

Enterprise

Mr Jim Mather (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take steps to increase the proportion of inward investment jobs being located in the Highlands and Islands.

Mr Jim Wallace: Scottish Development International and its partners promote the whole of Scotland as a location for inward investment. Options put forward must directly address the requirements of potential investors, and attempts to favour specific locations could prove counter productive. However, in recognition of the particular difficulties faced by rural areas, Scottish Development International’s Rural Inward Investment Team, established in 1998, works closely with local enterprise companies and with Highlands and Islands Enterprise in order to identify projects particularly suited to these regions.

Environment

Margaret Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to promote the principle that the polluter pays in respect of environmental impact.

Ross Finnie: Some Scottish legislation requires polluters to pay for damage to the environment. For example the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 sets out a framework for improving Scotland’s water environment, underpinned by the principle that the polluter will pay for the required improvements. The secondary legislation currently being developed shall also promote this fundamental principle, as will any charging schemes developed under the provisions of the act. This will be balanced by the need to take into account the social and economic impact of enforcing full cost recovery on business or industry. The contaminated land regime established under Part ll A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 enshrines the principle that those responsible for causing pollution of land should pay to clean it up. A framework for establishing who is responsible for remediation costs is set out in the legislation, alongside arrangements for taking into account hardship issues. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency also recovers the cost of its regulatory duties through charges levied on holders of environmental permits and licences.

  The Scottish Executive is currently monitoring the passage of the Environmental Liability Directive through the European legislative process to see what change might be required to our domestic arrangements.

Environment

Margaret Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what consultations it has had with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the proposed European directive on environmental liability.

Ross Finnie: The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues including environmental liability.

Environment

Margaret Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether specific Scottish legislation will be required to give effect to the proposed European directive on environmental liability.

Ross Finnie: Until the directive has been finalised it is not possible to know what legislation will be needed to give effect to it.

  In the Scottish Executive’s consultation paper Proposal for a Directive on Environmental Liability with regard to the Prevention and Remedying of Environmental Damage, published in April 2002, it was acknowledged that extensive changes to existing measures would be required as the proposed new directive has many differences, including new duties for competent authorities. A copy of the consultation paper is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 20877).

Environment

Margaret Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive when the proposed European directive on environmental liability will be agreed and implemented in Scotland.

Ross Finnie: EU negotiations on the proposed directive on environmental liability are on-going and currently at first reading stage. It is not possible at this stage to offer a definitive view on when the proposal will be agreed.

  The current position is that the Council of the European Union is expected to adopt a common position in September. This will then be forwarded to the European Parliament for a second reading.

Glasgow Harbour

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to support the Glasgow Harbour Development in light of the liquidation of Scotdem Demolition Ltd.

Mr Jim Wallace: The Executive has no involvement in this project.

Health

Shona Robison (Dundee East) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many norovirus infection outbreaks have been reported to the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.

Malcolm Chisholm: The following figures, published by the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH), reflect reported outbreaks of confirmed or suspected norovirus (NV) in Scotland each year since 1999 (including the first quarter figures for 2003):

  


NHS Board Area 
  

Year 
  


Total 
  



1999 
  

2000 
  

20001 
  

2002 
  

2003
(Quarter 1) 
  



Ayrshire and Arran 
  

1 
  

0 
  

3 
  

5 
  

16 
  

25 
  



Argyll and Clyde 
  

1 
  

5 
  

3 
  

31 
  

16 
  

56 
  



Borders 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

0 
  

2 
  



Dumfries and Galloway 
  

0 
  

3 
  

0 
  

7 
  

15 
  

25 
  



Fife 
  

0 
  

1 
  

0 
  

7 
  

1 
  

9 
  



Forth Valley 
  

6 
  

6 
  

3 
  

16 
  

0 
  

31 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

1 
  

1 
  

4 
  

21 
  

11 
  

38 
  



Grampian 
  

7 
  

6 
  

5 
  

20 
  

27 
  

65 
  



Highland 
  

0 
  

5 
  

2 
  

4 
  

6 
  

17 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

19 
  

11 
  

22 
  

60 
  

32 
  

144 
  



Lothian 
  

1 
  

5 
  

1 
  

4 
  

0 
  

11 
  



Orkney 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

1 
  

0 
  

1 
  



Shetland 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Tayside 
  

1 
  

1 
  

2 
  

6 
  

10 
  

20 
  



Western Isles 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

0 
  

2 
  



Various* 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

1 
  

0 
  

1 
  



Total 
  

37 
  

44 
  

45 
  

187 
  

134 
  

447 
  



  *Precise source unknown.

Health

Mr Bruce McFee (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will investigate the events leading to the decision by Argyll and Clyde NHS Board to withdraw emergency and major complex surgery from the Vale of Leven Hospital from 1 October 2003.

Malcolm Chisholm: While this is primarily a matter for NHS Argyll and Clyde, I am aware of the board's decision to engage the contingency plans for surgical services at the Vale of Leven Hospital. I understand that this decision was not taken lightly and was necessary to preserve clinical safety.

  NHS Argyll and Clyde are currently working on a new clinical services strategy for the whole NHS Board area and I have been assured that comprehensive public engagement and consultation will inform this.

Health

Mr Bruce McFee (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions took place with the Scottish Ambulance Service about any need for additional ambulance provision in relation to the decision to withdraw emergency and complex major surgery from the Vale of Leven Hospital from 1 October 2003 before the decision was announced.

Malcolm Chisholm: While this is primarily an operational matter for both NHS Argyll and Clyde and the Scottish Ambulance Service, I know both parties have been and continue to be in discussion about how to best address the implications of the contingency plans at the Vale of Leven Hospital.

Health

Mr Bruce McFee (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria were used to determine any need for additional ambulance provision in relation to the decision to withdraw emergency and complex major surgery from the Vale of Leven Hospital from 1 October 2003.

Malcolm Chisholm: While this is primarily an operational matter for the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS Argyll and Clyde, I know that the Scottish Ambulance Service continually monitors its performance to ensure patients’ needs are met efficiently and effectively. Where there is a change of services, a number of factors including changes to the level of demand, the incident service times and the impact on response time standards, are considered.

Health

Mr Bruce McFee (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for NHS consultants there are in each discipline, broken down by NHS board.

Mr Tom McCabe: Information on the number of consultant vacancies in each specialty group and each NHS board area is available in table B17 on the ISD website at:

  http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd/NHSiS_resource/Workforce/workforce_statistics.htm

Health

Mr David Davidson (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give any consideration to introducing ambulatory oxygen equipment in the NHS.

Mr Tom McCabe: The Minister for Health and Community Care made a policy commitment in October 2002 that lightweight oxygen cylinders would be added to the Scottish Drug Tariff. We are currently working on the details of implementation, and intend to make ambulatory oxygen cylinders available on GP prescription by the end of the summer.

Health

Mr David Davidson (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will recommend the use of statins for all diabetics at risk of heart disease.

Malcolm Chisholm: The section of the Scottish Diabetes Framework dealing with prevention recognises diabetes as one of the major underlying causes of heart disease. The Scottish Executive appreciates the value of statins in the treatment of people with diabetes and expects clinical staff to prescribe statins in accordance with each individual’s clinical needs. The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland standards on diabetes provide for the regular monitoring of cholesterol levels of those with diabetes. The diabetes and cardiac services Managed Clinical Networks being developed in each board area are an important mechanism for ensuring that the evidence base is reflected in local practice.

MMR Vaccine

Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what the take-up of the MMR vaccine has been in the Forth Valley NHS Board area in each of the last five years.

Malcolm Chisholm: Uptake of the MMR vaccine in Forth Valley NHS Board area over the previous five years, to end December each year, is as follows:

  


Year 
  

% Uptake 
  



2002 
  

90.8 
  



2001 
  

90.6 
  



2000 
  

95.2 
  



1999 
  

93.9 
  



1998 
  

94.2

MMR Vaccine

Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS boards have the authority to make single vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella available to patients.

Malcolm Chisholm: There are single component measles, mumps and rubella vaccines licensed in the UK. The licensed measles and mumps vaccines are not currently marketed by their licence-holders in the UK but rubella vaccines are available, and are used mainly for the immunisation of women of child-bearing age who have been found to be non-immune either before or between pregnancies.

  UK legislation allows a licensed importer to import an unlicensed monocomponent vaccine and supply it in response to a doctor’s prescription to meet the "special needs" of an individual patient, on the doctor’s direct personal responsibility. Relevant guidance on the current position for all NHS health professionals was provided in a letter from the Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Pharmaceutical Officer in December 2000.

Multiple Sclerosis

Donald Gorrie (Central Scotland) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that Greater Glasgow NHS Board complies with its letter of 4 June 2002, NHS HDL 2002(6), Cost Effective Provision of Disease Modifying Therapies for People with Multiple Sclerosis , which states that all people with MS who are eligible under neurological guidelines for beta interferon and glatiramer acetate should receive these drugs on the NHS, following the board’s decision of 17 June 2003 to cap the number of people receiving these drugs.

Malcolm Chisholm: Greater Glasgow NHS Board has given an assurance that patients will continue to be assessed and prescribed beta interferon where it is clinically appropriate.

NHS Staff

Carolyn Leckie (Central Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in implementing the recommendations of the Audit Scotland report, Planning Ward Nursing - Legacy or Design? .

Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Executive Health Department has made progress across the Audit Scotland recommendations on workforce planning, workload, quality of care and information for managing staffing.

  On workforce planning: in the past year the National Workforce Unit and the National Workforce Committee have been established as part of the Scottish Executive’s workforce development strategy. These bodies are now working with NHSScotland to develop new approaches to the way NHSScotland plans, develops and utilises its workforce at national, regional and local level.

  On workload: a project manager has been appointed to take forward a comprehensive mapping exercise to establish what methodologies are currently used to examine nursing workload and workforce planning in NHSScotland, to measure quality of care and what information management and technology systems are in use to collate and analyse data. Recommendations on effectively tackling nursing workload issues will be published in a report at the end of the six-month project.

  On quality of care: the Scottish Executive Health Department is currently exploring with NHSScotland and NHSQuality Improvement Scotland what action needs to be taken to undertake a systematic audit of nursing quality indicators

  On information: the Strategic Systems Study on workforce information, commissioned by the Scottish Executive Health Department, has reported on a strategic model to provide a unified database of workforce information for NHS bodies in Scotland and work is now progressing on short, medium and longer term actions to take this forward.

NHS Staff

Carolyn Leckie (Central Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any NHS trusts that continue to not make allowances in their staffing establishments for sickness and absence levels, as identified by the Audit Scotland report, Planning Ward Nursing - Legacy or Design? .

Malcolm Chisholm: General discussion on the recommendations of the Audit Scotland report was held with all trusts, and specific discussion with the two trusts who identified themselves in the questionnaire as not including an element for time out covering annual leave, study leave and sickness in their staffing establishment.

  The two trusts have confirmed that they have policies and procedures in place for ensuring a safe level of nursing and that they are able to meet patient need. In addition these two trusts are relooking at their services in relation to service redesign, reconfiguration of services and recognised areas requiring investment, for example medical services and older people services. This includes making decisions on staffing establishments with adjustments for time out elements. These will be subject to review depending on the outcome of the workload project currently under way and due to report in six months time.

NHS Staff

Carolyn Leckie (Central Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-848 by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 June 2003, what funding will be required to implement the working time regulations for all NHS staff and whether all NHS boards have allocated the necessary funding.

Malcolm Chisholm: It is not possible to disaggregate the level of resource required to implement the working time regulations from the general allocation provided to NHS boards for the overall delivery of care to their patient population.

  It is the responsibility of each NHS board to use the resources available to it through its annual allocation to meet the requirements of the working time regulations.

  In 2003-04 every NHS board received increases of between 7.4 and 8.9% - well above the rate of inflation.

NHS Staff

Carolyn Leckie (Central Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide documentary evidence that all NHS employers are compliant with the working time regulations for all NHS employees.

Malcolm Chisholm: Documentary evidence on compliance with the working time regulations is not held by the Scottish Executive, as compliance is a function for which NHS Scotland employers are responsible.

  NHS HDL (2003) 3, issued by the Executive to NHSScotland employers on 7 February 2003, asks all NHSScotland employers to hold documentary evidence to confirm compliance with the working time regulations. This could be made available to staff if requested in accordance with the Data Protection Act.

NHS Staff

Margaret Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has given to the NHS about complying fully with EU Council directive 97/81/EC on part-time working.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Executive issued a Health Department Letter NHS HDL(2003)9 on 5 March 2003 advising NHS employers to comply with the requirements of the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations which implement the EU directive on part-time working. A copy of this letter can be viewed at http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sehd/hdl.asp.

NHS Staff

Carolyn Leckie (Central Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-843 by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 June 2003, whether all NHS trusts have produced documentary evidence to confirm compliance with the working time regulations and whether such evidence will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

Malcolm Chisholm: All employers must comply with the working time regulations. The regulations require that all NHSScotland employers keep adequate records on compliance with the working time regulations.

  Information, in accordance with the Data Protection Act may be requested from each NHSScotland board. This information is not held centrally.

Pharmacies

Mr David Davidson (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether pharmacy oxygen services will continue.

Mr Tom McCabe: Yes, pharmacy oxygen services will continue. Community pharmacists already provide patients with oxygen in large, non-portable cylinders and we intend to make portable oxygen cylinders available on GP prescription through community pharmacists by the end of the summer .

Pharmacies

Mr David Davidson (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what progress there has been in respect of the new community pharmacy contract.

Mr Tom McCabe: My officials are meeting regularly with the Scottish Pharmaceutical General Council to negotiate a new community pharmacy contract. Positive progress is being made and announcements on the shape and content of the new contract will be made in due course.

Rail Freight

Bristow Muldoon (Livingston) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether applications to move mail by rail would meet its criteria for rail freight grants in respect of transferring lorry miles from road to rail.

Nicol Stephen: The movement of mail by rail can be considered for both Freight Facilities and Track Access Grant support. There are a number of criteria that must be met before awards of either grant can be made; however, these grants are available to carriers of all types of freight.

Scottish Executive Publications

Shona Robison (Dundee East) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-34337 by Mr Andy Kerr on 11 March 2003, how many publications it has produced since 31 January 2003 and how much each publication cost to produce.

Mr Andy Kerr: The details of Scottish Executive publications in the period 31 January 2003 to 30 June 2003 are as follows:

  


Publication 
  

Cost 
  



Appointments to Non-Departmental Public Bodies 
  

£1,928.08 
  



Care Campaign leaflet 
  

£7,355.15 
  



Central Heating Warm Deal Annual Report 
  

£5,170.28 
  



Civil Judicial Statistics 
  

£780.58 
  



Consultation Draft Education Bill 
  

£981.00 
  



Consultation on Community Wardens 
  

£2,552.85 
  



Cryptosporidium Guidelines 
  

£1,097.11 
  



Know the Score booklets 
  

£2,065.78 
  



Electronic Service Delivery Scottish Local Authorities 
  

£4,521.50 
  



Framework for the Development of Out of School Care 
  

£22,782.68 
  



Free School Meals leaflet 
  

£11,369.88 
  



Fund to Develop Post Offices in Deprived Urban Areas 
  

£1,685.40 
  



Getting Our Priorities Right 
  

£12,756.00 
  



Guidance on How to Set up a Call Centre 
  

£4,092.48 
  



Health White Paper Summary leaflet 
  

£986.70 
  



Health White Paper Summary 
  

£2,677.73 
  



Health White Paper 
  

£16,577.05 
  



Hungry for Success 
  

£28,976.93 
  



Improving Communication in the Construction Industry 
  

£846.98 
  



Innovation Fund Evaluation Report 
  

£4,585.85 
  



Kincardine Crossing leaflet 
  

£1,174.58 
  



Lifelong Learning Strategy 
  

£3,128.06 
  



Wildlife Crime posters 
  

£2,251.10 
  



M74 Environment statement 
  

£3,222.75 
  



M74 General leaflet 
  

£19,154.44 
  



M74 Legal Document 
  

£3,003.45 
  



Making Progress - Equality Unit Annual Report 
  

£7,209.06 
  



National Appeal Panel Guidelines 
  

£5,522.82 
  



National Debate Response - Gaelic 
  

£2,645.00 
  



National Strategy for Farm Business Advice and Skills 
  

£2,461.25 
  



Nomination - St Kilda - Inclusion - World Heritage Sitelist 
  

£28,931.39 
  



Preparation of Injections in near Patient Areas 
  

£6,888.38 
  



Guide to Clubs and Clubbing 
  

£1,690.13 
  



Promoting Health Supporting Inclusion 
  

£1,419.35 
  



Public Appointments leaflet 
  

£1,363.05 
  



Race Equality Scheme booklet 
  

£6,573.97 
  



Response to National Debate on Education 
  

£21,162.00 
  



SE Review - Policies Promote Social Economy 
  

£7,512.45 
  



Scottish Diabetes Survey Core Data Set 
  

£6,392.37 
  



Scottish Framework for Nursing in Schools 
  

£10,392.20 
  



Scottish Schools Estates Review 
  

£17,625.10 
  



SE Action Plan for Organic Farming and Food 
  

£3,646.07 
  



SE's Annual Report on Drug Action 
  

£6,309.70 
  



Standards in Social Work Education 
  

£14,078.10 
  



Stocktake - Report on Progress 
  

£7,545.90 
  



Teaching in Scotland 
  

£1,227.17 
  



Teaching Qualifications in Further Education -Consultation 
  

£2,969.63 
  



Tenements Bill Consultation 
  

£7,025.62 
  



The Scottish Index on Deprivation - Summary 
  

£4,547.18 
  



Update on Transport Delivery report 
  

£3,842.30 
  



Vulnerable Witnesses Bill 
  

£2,340.95 
  



Well? - Evaluation Research 
  

£10,281.95 
  



Anaesthetic Assistance/StrategyTraining 
  

£1,075.88 
  



Capacity Building Mental Health Summary 
  

£2,483.75 
  



Childcare Partnership Handbook 
  

£6,936.23 
  



Consultation on Housing Policy 
  

£920.23 
  



Dental Point of Treatment Checks 
  

£15,203.38 
  



Domestic Abuse, There's No Excuse 
  

£3,090.73 
  



Early Years Strategy 
  

£673.78 
  



Facing the Future Workshop Workbooks 
  

£2,154.58 
  



Funding Children and Young People Consultation 
  

£995.00 
  



Gun Amnesty leaflets 
  

£2,933.46 
  



Health Improvement Action Plan 
  

£8,714.41 
  



Health in Scotland Annual Report 
  

£9,156.15 
  



Higher Education Review Report 
  

£8,602.50 
  



HR Strategy Summary 
  

£3,527.60 
  



Instant Control Management 
  

£3,798.10 
  



Integrated Strategy Early Years booklet 
  

£1,232.50 
  



M74 General and Legal Documents 
  

£8,058.00 
  



Managing Waiting Times Good Practice Guide 
  

£4,241.20 
  



National Guidance on Head Lice 
  

£8,500.70 
  



New Carers Leaflet 
  

£13,974.05 
  



Parents Checklist booklets 
  

£1,069.00 
  



Police Recruitment leaflets 
  

£4,375.00 
  



Responding to Domestic Abuse 
  

£12,095.87 
  



Scottish Diabetes Survey 2002 
  

£6,087.60 
  



Social Care booklets 
  

£2,924.00 
  



Strategic Framework on Scottish Aquaculture: Consultation 
  

£7,606.67 
  



Well? Magazine - March 2003 
  

£21,876.59

Scottish Executive Publications

Shona Robison (Dundee East) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10970 by Angus Mackay on 25 January 2001, how many publications it produced from 12 May 1999 to 31 July 2000 and how much each publication cost to produce.

Mr Andy Kerr: The details of Scottish Executive publications produced in the period from 12 May to 31 July 2000 are as follows:

  


Publication 
  

Cost 
  



Single Social Tenancy and Housing and Anti Social Behaviour 
  Leaflets 
  

£6,728.08 
  



Agricultural Facts And Figures 
  

£834.90 
  



Aiming For Excellence Regulating Care And The Social Service 
  

£6,218.00 
  



All Party Consultative Steering Group Summary Report 
  

£6,481.60 
  



Antimicrobial Resistance Leaflet 
  

£17,988.10 
  



Beattie Committee 
  

£22,949.25 
  



Beattie Committee Report 
  

£33,395.47 
  



Beattie Committee Response Summary 
  

£12,773.00 
  



Building The Knowledge Driven Economy Booklet 
  

£6,646.75 
  



Child Protection - Health Guidance 
  

£18,510.00 
  



Childcare Link Scotland Leaflets 
  

£51,197.28 
  



Choosing A School 
  

£26,545.78 
  



Consultation On The General Teaching Council For Scotland 
  

£5,839.28 
  



Counting The Cost Booklet 
  

£3,339.70 
  



Cycling By Design 
  

£25,256.74 
  



Domestic Abuse Publication 
  

£34,293.40 
  



Improving Our Schools Summary 
  

£3,832.60 
  



Drug Misuse In Schools Guidelines 
  

£5,031.64 
  



E-Coli No 2 Leaflet 
  

£10,354.58 
  



Education For Work In Schools 
  

£16,858.08 
  



Enterprise Network Review 
  

£1,683.65 
  



Ethical Standards In Local Government Booklet 
  

£20,193.19 
  



Examining The Future Of Training For Work 
  

£20,761.19 
  



Fire Services Risk Assessment Booklet 
  

£4,298.63 
  



Framework Code Owner Occupied Sheltered Housing 
  

£1,720.85 
  



Govt Expenditure and Revenue Report 
  

£9,144.98 
  



Guidance On Local Transport 
  

£1,120.25 
  



Housing And Anti Social Behaviour 
  

£1,031.00 
  



Improving Our Schools Consultation 
  

£1,464.00 
  



Improving Our Schools Report And Summary 
  

£56,876.14 
  



Incapable Adults Bill 
  

£1,036.00 
  



Independent Commission On Local Govt And Scottish Parliament 
  

£12,135.22 
  



Integrated Transport Bill 
  

£10,594.39 
  



It Pays To Pay 
  

£2,339.78 
  



Lifelong Learning Targets 
  

£858.75 
  



Maclean Committee Reports 
  

£2,050.40 
  



Maths 2000 Booklet 
  

£42,457.00 
  



Memorandum Of Understanding 
  

£1,123.37 
  



National Cultural Strategy Translations 
  

£16,568.31 
  



National Parks Consultation Paper 
  

£14,160.38 
  



New Community Schools Newsletter 
  

£7,334.48 
  



New Single Social Housing Tenancy 
  

£979.00 
  



New Strategy For Scottish Tourism 
  

£32,262.98 
  



NHS Annual Report 1998-99 
  

£55,907.55 
  



NHS Complaints Procedure Leaflet 
  

£7,394.52 
  



NHS Education And Training 
  

£14,410.61 
  



NHS Learning Together 
  

£6,045.00 
  



NHS Loans Scheme 
  

£2,276.56 
  



Obtaining Maintenance From Abroad 
  

£1,627.28 
  



Parental Responsibilities 
  

£1,623.43 
  



Physical Punishment Children In Scotland 
  

£4,269.00 
  



Policy On Architecture 
  

£33,164.35 
  



Prevention Of Environmental Pollution 
  

£11,226.00 
  



Register Of Basic Seed Potatoes 
  

£3,402.00 
  



Review Of Assessment Pre-School And Ages 5-14 
  

£67,218.99 
  



Review Of Public Health Function 
  

£11,108.78 
  



Your Children Matter Booklet 
  

£6,857.00 
  



Road Users Charging Booklet 
  

£3,550.82 
  



Rural Petrol Stations Scheme 
  

£1,640.35 
  



Working With Children 
  

£12,193.83 
  



Safer Communities In Scotland 
  

£20,748.68 
  



Working Together (Programme Of Government) 
  

£34,667.78 
  



Safer Communities Through Partnership 
  

£1,586.00 
  



Safer Routes To School Booklet 
  

£12,505.55 
  



Scot Agriculture Guide To Grants And Services 
  

£2,462.40 
  



Scottish Climate Change Programme 
  

£18,459.05 
  



Scottish Tourism Consultation Doc 
  

£2,886.20 
  



Social Inclusion Booklets 
  

£49,769.48 
  



Social Inclusion Report 
  

£16,631.00 
  



Social Justice Guidance 
  

£3,265.00 
  



Special Needs Post School Provision (Beattie Committee) 
  

£2,348.60 
  



Spending Plans For Scotland 
  

£12,039.15 
  



Stalking And Harassment Consultation 
  

£4,966.58 
  



Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - An Action Plan 
  

£3,815.93 
  



Strategic Roads Review 
  

£34,663.01 
  



Supporting Active Communities 
  

£7,787.35 
  



Talking Sense Booklet 
  

£12,328.00 
  



The Scottish Police Special Constabulary Leaflet 
  

£1,161.00 
  



Tourism Strategy Summary 
  

£1,612.35 
  



Towards A Safer Healthier Workplace 
  

£17,185.42 
  



Winter Maintenance 1999 
  

£7,529.73 
  



Towards An Equality Strategy 
  

£10,216.38 
  



Transport Audit Report 
  

£745.77 
  



Trunk Road Biodiversity Action Plan 
  

£10,508.47 
  



Water Quality And Environmental Studies 
  

£11,965.04 
  



Agricultural Holdings White Paper 
  

£7,475.38 
  



Agricultural Facts And Figures Leaflet 
  

£700.60 
  



Ban On Hunting With Dogs 
  

£1,986.39 
  



Best Value In Local Govt 
  

£1,964.85 
  



Breastfeeding And Returning To Work 
  

£1,815.76 
  



Carers Campaign Leaflets 
  

£12,027.00 
  



Consultation On Judicial Appointments 
  

£6,322.18 
  



Cubie Leaflet 
  

£29,252.94 
  



Drugs Action Plan - Tackling Drugs The Way Forward 
  

£16,788.03 
  



Drugs Misuse In Schools Leaflets And Booklets 
  

£54,507.90 
  



Early Education And Childcare 
  

£5,856.40 
  



Economic Report On Scottish Agriculture 
  

£6,222.50 
  



Free Passage Of Fish Booklet 
  

£3,565.08 
  



Gourock/Dunoon Ferry Service 
  

£6,028.00 
  



Healthy Scotland Convention Programme 
  

£499.80 
  



Housing Green Paper 
  

£31,514.87 
  



Improving Our Schools 
  

£7,482.78 
  



Individual Learning Accounts Booklet 
  

£11,043.39 
  



Learning Disability Review 
  

£44,404.65 
  



Maclean Committee Response 
  

£10,359.35 
  



NHS Way Ahead Issue 2 
  

£7,250.23 
  



Pre School Leaflet 
  

£11,960.58 
  



Programme For Government Leaflet 
  

£1,669.35 
  



Promoting International Dimensions In Scottish Schools 
  

£2,867.10 
  



Renewing Local Democracy 
  

£28,455.05 
  



Rural Affairs Action Plan 
  

£17,137.04 
  



Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Review 
  

£12,517.20 
  



School Codes Consultation Paper 
  

£4,668.63 
  



Science Strategy Review Group 
  

£2,701.43 
  



Scottish Compact And Voluntary Unit 
  

£4,104.83 
  



Scottish Agriculture - Guide To Grants and Services 
  

£3,372.05 
  



Social Justice Action Plan 
  

£14,171.33 
  



State Aid - Ferry Consultation 
  

£1,805.60 
  



The Way Forward For Care 
  

£6,637.65 
  



Towards A Just Conclusion 
  

£3,235.50 
  



Training Qualification Action Plan 
  

£3,686.10 
  



Travel Choices For Scotland Leaflet 
  

£1,437.10 
  



Youth Crime Review - Main Report And Action Plan 
  

£7,401.45

Scottish Executive Staff

Margaret Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how it ensures that all its departments comply with EU Council directive 97/81/EC on part-time working.

Mr Andy Kerr: In line with its equal opportunities and diversity policies, the Scottish Executive does not discriminate against part-time workers and is committed to ensuring that all of its staff achieve a satisfactory work-life balance. Part-time working is only one of several ways in which Executive staff can enjoy additional flexibility in their working pattern.

Water Industry

Des McNulty (Clydebank and Milngavie) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether any sustainable urban drainage systems have been transferred to Scottish Water under the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003.

Ross Finnie: Before any sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) can be transferred to Scottish Water, under the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003, ministers need to make enabling regulations under section 30 of the act.

  These regulations are technical and complex as they relate to construction standards and requirements in relation to the nature, design and layout of SUDS. It is important that we get these right and the Executive is currently in the process of gathering the information required to ensure that the regulations will be effective.

  Before making any regulations there will be a full consultation with Scottish Water, local authorities, the construction industry and other interested parties.

Water Industry

Des McNulty (Clydebank and Milngavie) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made by Scottish Water in implementing the consultation code required under section 28 of the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002.

Ross Finnie: Section 28 of the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 requires Scottish Water to consult each of the Water Customer Consultation Panels about its consultation code prior to it seeking ministers’ approval of the code.

  Scottish Water has prepared a draft code and submitted it to the panels for their views. In light of the panels’ views, which will be delivered to Scottish Water in September, it will prepare a final version, which it will submit to ministers for their consideration and approval.

  Meantime, Scottish Water is using the draft code as the basis for its consultations with communities affected by activities such as maintenance and investment programmes.